Roller derby women robbed

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Seems like the B.A.D. Girls ran into some bad boys in San Francisco’s Mission District earlier this month.

Two members of The B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls, which bills itself as a “full contact, all female flat-track roller derby league,” were robbed at about 11 p.m. July 9 by two robbers on the 100 block of Guerrero Street.

The women were held up while carrying thousands of dollars in cash reserves and proceeds from an event earlier that evening at the Craneway Pavilion in Richmond, where the Richmond Wrecking Belles had battled the Berkeley Resistance, said Katy Lim, a spokeswoman for the nonprofit, volunteer-run league. The two were heading to an undisclosed location to store the money, Lim said.

The robbers, described only as two black men in their 20s, were armed with a handgun, according to police. They fled in a late 1990s Mazda van with the women’s cash box. No arrests have been made.

The victims weren’t hurt, but the heist has hit the league hard.

“The reserves were for us to pay for the venue, vendors, security and other amenities, so the money stolen was more than just that event’s profits for the evening,” Lim said.